Back on Feb 11: Powell speach

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Ok, here is a speech from Powell, my comments will follow as reply to this post:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Feb..._200302116.html
Powell: Bin Laden to Transmit Message to Iraqi People
By Kathleen T. Rhem
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2003 -- Osama bin Laden -- or someone "we believe to be bin Laden" -- will be sending a message of solidarity to the people of Iraq, Secretary of State Colin Powell advised the Senate this morning.

Powell told the Senate Budget Committee that bin Laden had sent a message to the Qatar-based Arab network Al Jazeera for broadcast today.

"You'll be seeing this as the day unfolds, where once again he speaks to the people of Iraq and talks about their struggle and how he is in partnership with Iraq," Powell said. (The bin Laden message began airing internationally after Powell's Senate appearance.)

Al Jazeera first denied there was such a tape, according to published media reports. The network later admitted to having a message in which bin Laden calls on Muslims to "unite in defending the Iraqi people."

Powell said the message is stronger proof of a nexus between international terrorist networks and Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. The Bush administration has alluded to such a connection since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, but evidence has been in short supply.

During his Feb. 5 address to the U.N. Security Council, Powell provided compelling evidence about Iraq harboring a known al Qaeda poison expert.

"As I tried to demonstrate before the United Nations last week, there are linkages (between terrorist networks and Iraq)," Powell said today. The links may not be as conclusive as some people would like, but they're firm enough indication that terrorists such as al Qaeda will have weapons of mass destruction if Hussein has the chance to develop them, he said.

Powell said it was this "linkage" that persuaded him that containment was no longer the right course in dealing with Iraq. Answering a senator's question why, Powell admitted he was a longtime supporter of "smart sanctions," but now realizes they are not enough.

"We found that even with all of these containment efforts of the past 12 years, they have not served to stop Saddam Hussein and his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, or to encourage him to get rid of the weapons of mass destruction that we know he has," the secretary said. "Notwithstanding all our efforts at containment, we see evidence that he continues to try to break out of the box."

1. Feb 11 2003
2. Osama bin Laden -- or someone "we believe to be bin Laden" -- will be sending a message
3. "As I tried to demonstrate before the United Nations last week -Feb. 5- , there are linkages (between terrorist networks and Iraq)," Powell said today.
4. The links may not be as conclusive as some people would like, but they're firm enough indication that terrorists such as al Qaeda will have weapons of mass destruction if Hussein has the chance to develop them, he said.


so Feb 11 2003, nobody was convinced about the links and the WMDs stock piles proofs showed by Collin POwell

how the hell can he knows the content of the tape and believe that it's from Bin Laden when it took them - the analysts - 6 days to analyse the Al-Qaeda tape from November 2002 and while analysing it the statement was: we don't know who is speaking.

Back to the content of the tape: Al-Jazeera never talked about that tape but tthey - US gov - were aware of the content of the tape .... no one else except Al-Jazeera had received the tapes and for one reason: Al-Qaeda stated that only Al-Jazeera would be their link to the media.

Al-Jazeera never - I say never - gave information about the content of a tape before showing it.
Al-Jazeera has always announced that they had a Al-Qaeda tape and when this tape would be shown ...... except that day.


So how can Powell know 4 hours before the showing of the tape by Al-Jazeera - which didn't announced it at the time Powell is speaking - the content of that tape and that's a Bin Laden message to the people of Iraq and talks about their struggle and how he is in partnership with Iraq ......

how ? intelligence services ?


Lets continue ....


Linkages ? the proofs was craps, near insulting people who was listening.

But with the tape, he's got its linkage as it's Bin Laden who attest of this partnership ......

Then notice the Collin's phrase: but they're firm enough indication that terrorists such as al Qaeda will have weapons of mass destruction if Hussein has the chance to develop them.

So he - in fact US gov or should I say Bush and his friends - tried to convince that Iraq had huge WMDs stock piles but he say: if Hussein has the chance to develop them .

So does he - Saddam - had them or not - the WMDs - on Feb 11 2003 ?

So one tape appearing at least at two different places the same day , attesting the links between Al-Qaeda - remember 911 ? - and Iraq - so it make Iraq responsible of 911, what 70% US citizens believe (according to the polls ) - ..... and nobody came later on to attest or deny that it was Bin Laden ..... what had always been done for ALL Al-Qaeda tapes ......

And this just before the UN chief inspectors speech at UNSC ........

Again, whatever Iraq would have done, going at war was already decided ............. by US gov - Bush Jr and his friends - .........